Off to Manly!

Back at Chani’s I started to make some new plans and decided to take the ferry to Manly for a few days and just go right back to backpacker mode!!! I said goodbye, probably not for the last time! haha!!! I had a couple great days of sun while I was out at Mainly and got some rays!

Colleen visit’s!!!

Mine and Chani’s friend Colleen we met on the cruise came to Sydney for the night so she came to stay for the night. Even though she was severely jet lagged it was still so great to see her for the night. 

City life just isn’t for me!!!

With a new year upon me I thought I would live in the big city for a month or so and started putting job apps out for the numerous face-to-face fundraisers needed for the numerous charities from cancer to Unicef to Greenpeace! I ended up getting 3 or 4 call backs, I took two job interviews and got both jobs and took the one for Greenpeace! Did a couple days training and already getting annoyed with the public transport! I spent my first day fundraising in the heart of the city constantly bothering people to sign up and support Greenpeace. The job was ok but not great, the environment was terrible amongst the skyscrapers, sirens and all the negativity of people in the city! After work around 4:30, or RUSH HOUR!!! I headed to the subway with the, what felt like, MILLIONS of people all trying to get on this already packed train it hit me like a brick wall!!! City life just isn’t for me! 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!

New Years Eve in Sydney on a Boat!!!

Michael and Chani have other plans for new years so I had to make some of my own. I got in touch with a friend from Brazil I met on the stray bus and he said he was going to watch the fireworks on a boat in the harbor with some other mates so I jumped on that as well and it is going to be EPIC!!!

Flight to Sydney and back to Chani’s

I tried to change my seat to the emergency exit for more legroom and I messed something up and ended getting upgraded to business class! Sweet! I got a few more winks of sleep on the plane but not much, even though I had tons of room and no one besides me! Compared if I had been in the sardine can which was the back of the plane! Back into Sydney central station and down town to run some errands and contact Chani and some friends I met in NZ who were spending New Years in Sydney. I made my way to Chani’s via the train and bus and met her boyfriend Michael who is pretty cool. Her other roomy moved out so I got a bigger room this time and a bigger bed, nice! 

Intercity bus to Christchurch, flight to Auckland!

The Stray bus was not running to Christchurch today so I had to buy a ticket on the Intercity bus and was pleasantly surprised with the enjoyment level that the bus driver delivered! He was a very smart man and told us a lot of interesting things along the way! My flight to Auckland was uneventful and I managed to get a few hours of shuteye of a bench in the airport!